Great English Painters
Great English Painters
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His acquaintance with Johnson induced him, about this time, to write for the " Idler " some papers on exact imitations of nature and the true conception of beauty. These essays are not remarkable either for vigour or for elegance ; they set nothing old in a new light. He claims for painting the privilege of poetry in selecting fit subjects for the pencil, in imitating what is pure and lofty, and avoiding the mechanical drudgery of copying with a servile accuracy all that nature presents. He ass...erts that poetry is the sister of painting ; that both exercise authority over the realms of imagination ; and that the latter alone adds intellectual energy to the productions of fancy. Concerning our conceptions of the beautiful, he says that the productions of nature are all of themselves beautiful ; and that custom, rather than the surpassing loveliness of particular objects, directs our admiration. He expended much thought in the composition of these papers ; and as they were required by Johnson to meet some sudden emergency, he sat up all night, which occasioned a sharp illness that detained him awhile from his pencil.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
His acquaintance with Johnson induced him, about this time, to write for the " Idler " some papers on exact imitations of nature and the true conception of beauty. These essays are not remarkable either for vigour or for elegance ; they set nothing old in a new light. He claims for painting the privilege of poetry in selecting fit subjects for the pencil, in imitating what is pure and lofty, and avoiding the mechanical drudgery of copying with a servile accuracy all that nature presents. He ass...erts that poetry is the sister of painting ; that both exercise authority over the realms of imagination ; and that the latter alone adds intellectual energy to the productions of fancy. Concerning our conceptions of the beautiful, he says that the productions of nature are all of themselves beautiful ; and that custom, rather than the surpassing loveliness of particular objects, directs our admiration. He expended much thought in the composition of these papers ; and as they were required by Johnson to meet some sudden emergency, he sat up all night, which occasioned a sharp illness that detained him awhile from his pencil.
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